Jen Sookfong Lee

True.

But then you have authors who take these exact same family dysfunctions and wrap them in completely wild genre fiction like Jen Sookfong Lee's The Hunger We Pass Down.

Oh, a masterful pivot into horror.

We follow Alice, a single mother who is spiraling into severe alcoholism.

Surround yourself with people and groups who support you and validate your lived experience.

Books to help survivors include Unbound: My Story of Liberation and the Birth of the MeToo Movement by Tarana Burke; Know My Name by Chanel Miller; Unspeakable Acts: Women, Art, and Sexual Violence in the 1970s by Nancy Princenthal; and Whatever Gets You Through: Twelve Survivors on Life After Sexual Assault, edited by Stacey May Fowles and Jen Sookfong Lee, with a forward by Jessica Valenti.

The profile of a rapist is not someone met in a car park late at night.

A rapist can also be in the family, among our friends," said Gisèle Pelicot, whose husband, Dominique Pelicot, drugged her over nine years, arranging for at least seventy-two men to rape her too.